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BRAIDED FENCE WIRE.

Nb. 516,886. Patented Mar. 20,1894.

INVE N 70H UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN B. CLEAVELAND, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

BRAIDED FENCE-WIRE.

SPECIFICATION forming partof Letters Patent No. 516,886, dated March 20, 1894. Application filed December 13, 1893. Serial No. 493,518- (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN B. CLEAVELAND, a citizen of the United States, residiu g at Indianapolis, in the county of Marion and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Im provement in Braided Fence-Wire, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in a braided fence-wire, for which Letters Patent No. 486,824 were issued to me November 22, 1892. The fencing-wire shown and described in said Letters Patent consists, essentially, of four wire strands, bent into serpentine form, and arranged in pairs in two planes at right angles to each other. Two of the strands are laid side-by-side in parallel planes without being twisted together but crossing each other to forma series of loops. The two strands thus arranged are bound together by the other pair of strands, which are interwoven with said loops and twisted together, thus forming a second series of loops. It is found in practice that the twisting together of the second pair of strands operates to weaken said strands, and to cause unequal strains in the completed fabric when it is subjected to strain under varying temperatures, when in position on a fence.

The object of my present improvement is to avoid this weakening and unequal strain of the strands. This result is accomplished by laying the wires, forming each pair of strands, side-by-side, in parallel planes, the wires forming both pairs being bent into serpentine form and laid side-by-side to form loops, which are interwoven so that each pair .of the strands operates to hold the other pair together, without any twisting whatever.

The accompanying drawings illustrate my invention.

Figure 1 represents a side elevation of the completed fencing-wire. Fig. 2 represents a plan in a plane at right angles to the view O, and D,indicate the other pair of strands,

which strands pass alternately in opposite directions over and under the strands A and B, at their points of intersection, the strands being laid side-by-side in parallel planes without twisting, the form and arrangement being precisely similar to the strands A and B, butin planes at right angles thereto. Bythis method of forming and arranging the strands forming the braided-wire, each strand is of the same shape and yields equally under tension, so that the strain is equally distributed throughout the fabric.

I claim as my invention The above described fencing-wire, consisting of two strands of "wire bent into serpentine form and laid side-by-side in parallel planes, but crossing each other to form a series of loops, said pair of strands being bound together by two other like and similarly arranged wire strands, which are interwoven with said loops, passing respectively alternately over and under the first wires at their points of intersection, thus forming a second series of loops in a plane substantially at right angles to the plane of the loops formed by the first mentioned wires, the four strands composing the fencingwire being of like shape, and braided together without twisting, all substantially as set forth.

JOHN B. OLEAVELAND.

Witnesses:

H. P. H001), V. M. H001). 

